OOHL Mjui, ^\-\^ Graphic design did not intend that any printing appear on the back of this cover, and you will find no page number allocated to the following listing of the Hugo Awards Nominees for 1984. But if you were about to mail out an issue of your newzine, you'd damn well make room for such news too... BEST NOVEL BEST PROFESSIONAL ARTIST MILLENIUM, John Varley Vai Lakey Lindahn MORETA: DRAGONLADY OF PERN, Anne McCaffrey Don Maitz ROBOTS OF DAWN, Isaac Asimov Rowena Morrill STARTIDE RISING, David Brin Barclay Shaw TEA WITH THE BLACK DRAGON, R.A. MacEvoy Michael Whelan BEST NOVELLA BEST SEMIPROFESSIONAL MAGAZINE Cascade Point, Timothy Zahn FANTASY NEWSLETTER/FANTASY REVIEW Hardfought, Greg Bear Robert Collins, ed. Hurricane Claude, Hilbert Schenck LOCUS, Charles N. Brown, ed. In the Face of My Enemy, Joseph Delaney SCIENCE FICTION CHRONICLE, Seeking, David Palmer Andrew Porter, ed. SCIENCE FICTION REVIEW, Richard E. Gies, ed. BEST NOVELETTE WHISPERS, Stuart Schiff, ed. "Black Air", Kim Stanley Robinson "Blood Music", Greg Bear BEST FANZINE "The Monkey Treatment", George RR Martin ANSIBLE, Dav Langford, ed. "The Sidon in the Mirror", Connie Willis FILE 770, Mike Glyer, ed. "Slow Birds", Ian Watson HOLIER THAN THOU, Marty Cantor, ed. IZZARD, Patrick and Teresa Nielsen- BEST SHORT STORY Hayden, ed. "The Geometry of Narrative", Hilbert Schenck THE PHILK FEE-NOM-EE-NON "The Peacemaker", Gardner Dozois Paul J. Willett, ed. "Servant of the People", Frederik Pohl "Speech Sounds", Octavia Butler BEST FANWRITER "Wong's Lost and Found Emporium", Richard E. Geis William Wu Mike Glyer Arthur Hlavaty BEST NONFICTION BOOK Dave Langford DREAM MAKERS Vol. 2, Charles Platt Teresa Nielsen-Hayden ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY Vol. 3, Donald Tuck BEST FANARTIST THE FANTASTIC ART OF ROWENA, Rowena Mrrill Brad Foster THE HIGH KINGS, Joy Chant Alexis Gilliland STAYING ALIVE: A WRITER'S GUIDE Joan Hanke-Woods Norman Spinrad William Rotsler Stu Shiffman BEST DRAMATIC PRESENTATION BRAINSTORM (MGM) THE JOHN W. CAMPBELL AWARD RETURN OF THE JEDI (Lucasfilm/Fox) Joseph H. Delaney THE RIGHT STUFF (The Ladd Co./Warner Bros.) Lisa Goldstein SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES (Disney) R.A. MacEvoy WarGames (MGM) Warren Norwood Joel Rosenberg BEST PROFESSIONAL EDITOR Sheri Tepper Terry Carr (UNIVERSE) Edward L. Ferman (F&SF) David G. Hartwell (Timescape/Pocket Books) Shawna McCarthy (IASFM) Stanley Schmidt (Analog) page OJO^S CfWCT peseta 1 to se Sydney, Australia, fan Jack Herman far IN this outran his competition to capture the Down Under Fan Fund. Herman's trip to /'AP6A2JN&. the 1984 Worldcon in Los Angeles, and his wanderings in America, will be well-subsi­ dized by DUFF accounts which American Administrator Jerry Kaufman said total $2500(US), with another $1900 (Australian) in the hands of Australian Administrator Marc Ortlieb. Kaufman, in Seattle, reported the balloting totals listed below: . A ©brag viJX l’?;- ■ ; t ■ US AUS TOTAL Jack Herman 46 32 78 FILE 770;46 is edited by Mike John Packer 8 3 11 Glyer at 5828 Woodman Ave. #2, Van No Preference 8 0 8 Nuys CA 91401. Phone: (818) 787- Ned Kelly 1 0 1 5061. F77O is available for art, Hold Over Funds 0 2 2 news, sleazy rumors, volatile innu­ Roy Ferguson 0 1 1 endo, trades (arranged) for other TOTAL 63 38 101 rfanzines from which I can lift news — but most significantly, (One ballot was received post-deadline.) for subscription at the rate of FILE 770's analysis of the polls found $4/5 issues, rendered in US bucks, that the only surprise was how little support .Overseas: same rate seamail, or Ned Kelly received from his home constitu­ $1 per copy by air printed matter. ency. Some experts felt that being deceased might impair Kelly’s chances of Also: Sub to RATTAIL FILE, the producing a trip report, and have cost him Worldcon letterzine, $2 for all j votes on that account. Perhaps’: a number copies while they last — to the of DUFF trip reports have been circulated. worldcon PO box, LACon II, PO Box If this was TAFF, Ned Kelly would not only 8442, Van Nuys CA 91409.Issue #2 be under no handicap, but would probably will be out within a couple weeks. finish ahead of D. West. MARCH 1984 In addition to Herman, Aussiefan Justin Ackroyd, the GUFF winner, will visit LACon II, Kaufman has learned. (From DASFAx 3/84) Olon Wiggins, chairman of DENVENTION I, the third World Science Fiction Convention, held in Denver in 1941, died February 4 at the Hospice of St. John in Lakewood, Colorado. He was 74. Wiggins was born in Texas in 1911 and moved to Denver with his family when he was a child. In the 1930s, Wiggins was editor and publisher of one of the earliest SF fanzines, THE ALCHEMIST. In 1940, Wiggins and another Denver fan, Lew Martin, traveled via boxcars to Chicago for the second Worldcon. Their offer to have the third Worldcon in Denver was accepted. Wiggins became inactive in fandom soon after Denvention I, but did appear on a fan panel at Denvention II in 1981. George Scithers, writing to the Postmaster of Philadelphia last February 28, requested postal inspectors to investigate bad checks sent from California in payment for Owlswick Press publications. Scithers’ letter, made available to the LASFS, read in part: "In November 1983 we received a check by mail from a Lee Smith, 1544% Pine Ave., Long Beach CA 90813 for books to be shipped to that address. About a week later we received a check by mail from a Darlene Stankey, 1101 E. Ventura B1J, Oxnard CA 90303 for books to be shipped to an address given as Los Angeles,1 CA, but which later turned out to be in Long Beach and the same as the address given by Lee Smith. When the orders were processed they appeared to be two different people." The check with each order was not honored by the bank.; J ■ ■ ’' ■ . > i ! j j . .. '■:; ; Scithers’ cprrespdhdence with a Lloyd’s Bank branch in Long Beach and a Bank of America branch in Oxnard verified that each check had been written on an account already closed. Bank of America’s letter of 12/30/83 said, "All checks we have received on this account are payable to mail order houses and signed by Linda Rarlene Stankey or Linda D. Benson. Mr. Benson also writes checks on this account." The amount of the B of A check was $59.95, and the Lloyd’s check was $53.75. One branch said the maker of the check had last had an account in 2/82, and yet the check sent to Owlswick had been made and submitted in November. Some Directors of LASFS- Inc. are sounding out club sentiment for a review of Smith’s membership in light of Scithers' recent experiences. SUNSET BOULEVARD: Evidently in an.effort to secure the title of Mr. Bicoastalj one of sf’s most famous pro artists paid another visit to LA in March. Pedestrians on the stretch of Sunset Boulevard two blocks west of the Cinerama Dome tend to be ladies who rent by the hour, bank tellers eagerly awaiting the 5 PM bus home, or derelicts. Stopped at the traffic light, I sensei there was something out of place When I saw a man in a suit. More peculiar: he was flanked by Sasha and Jacqui, whom I know from LASFS. Wait, I recognize that smile what’s Kelly Freas doihg on Sunset Boulevard? (Merely being in LA made sense -- Jacqui is his daughter1;) Now, the only time I ever see anybody I know on Sunset is when Doug Crepeau is i out to lunch from Science Fiction Consultants, hi^ representation firm striving to unite quality sf with Hollywood for an appropriate fee. ' Will Freas be joining Brunner as another SFC client? Or maybe he was just heading for the Lingerie club to listen to rockabilly...? i.; ' - : *• ‘ i.l 4 r. ■ : -r .- IS IT TRUE? Redheaded pro author and Southern fan Brad Linaweaver sojourned in LA at the end of 1983, trying to make his mark on the pocketbooks of local producers. Linaweaver wrote a "self-interview" about-his experiences, which appeared in the March ’84 ASHES. The interview included this exchange: "Q: Sounds like all this is a job for your agent. You have one, don't you? A: My East'Coast agent is strictly books and magazines. I'm free to secure the services of a West Coast representative for this other stuff. Q: How long do you think you’ll have to be out there before someone takes you on? A: Well, being a guest at Loscon 10 in Pasadena, and attending LASFS has already had an effect. I’ve been approached by a movie agent. Q: Did you sign on? A: No, I was warned off by people I respect. Better to wait on this sort of business. I’m going to do sdme spec scripts and try to make an impression before I sign anything. You can sign your life away out there before you even notice. Q: Do you believe , those stories about the sharks of Hollywood? A: Sure. But I'd rather be exploited on the West Coast than ignored in the East." Come on down! says the MC. 30 ° FILE 770:46 2 ’ March 1984 . ’ STUDY COMMITTEE DROP/FAILS? John. Mitchell of Chicago whispered into the ear of my phone answering machine "The committee that was appointed by WSFS last year to look into chang­ ing the site selection pro­ cedures /for Worldcons/ seems to be trying to run off the top of its head, if any, collectively.